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MEARCSTAPA Call for Papers/Presentations
Make/Risk/Work
BABEL 2017 Biennale
NEW DEADLINE!
Organizers: Asa Simon Mittman of California State University Chico: asmittman@csuchico.edu; Thea Tomaini of The University of Southern California: tmtomaini@gmail.com
Make/Risk/Work
BABEL 2017 Biennale, Reno, NV
Premodern Literature and Postmodernity
The Medieval and Early Modern English Studies Association of Korea
The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Seoul National University
Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
27 October 2017
Most handbooks on the subject of horror focus specifically on film, whereas books on the literary manifestations of horror tend to be bound to the idea of the “Gothic.” The current field of Gothic studies grows out of the study of Romanticism, and refers specifically to a late eighteenth-century genre, but has also come to denote a critical approach to literature, film, and culture, drawing on psychoanalysis, post structural criticism, feminist and queer theory. These perspectives are all to be included here, but the book responds to a growing sense that “horror” is itself a worthwhile focus of analysis.
Proposals for short presentations exploring the nature of medieval patience and its performance in secular and devotional contexts are invited for a session at the New Chaucer Society Congress at the University of Toronto from July 10-15, 2018. Patience is a complex and even paradoxical virtue. It intersects with agency and, to borrow Sara Ahmed’s term, willfulness, but it is also defined by restraint. It can describe an immediate response and/or a sustained practice. It involves affect as well as intellect. It exists on a continuum (someone can have no, little, or much patience), yet it exhibits a tipping point (when it runs out or is lost).
South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, November 3-5, 2017
Westin Peachtree Plaza, Atlanta, Georgia
Southeast Renaissance Conference, SAMLA Affiliate
CFP: Paradox and Form: High and Low Art in Early Modern Literature
Dr. Ruth McIntyre, Kennesaw State University
The Artisan’s Pen: Writers of the Middling Sort in the 16th and 17th centuries.
We are seeking papers for a panel to be held at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in New Orleans, March 22-24, 2018.
Medieval-Renaissance Conference XXXI
The University of Virginia’s College at Wise
September 21-23, 2017
Keynote Address
Elizabeth J. Bryan, Brown University
Historiated Bruts: How Manuscript Illustration Twisted History in the fifteenth-Century English Chronicle
“Artists, Activists, and Manuscript Evidence”
The Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, in keeping with the M-MLA conference’s theme of “Artists and Activists,” is sponsoring panels on manuscripts and printed books and the illuminators, scribes, editors, and other artists who created them and the scholars and readers who used them. The session invites all approaches, including textual, art historical, codicological, and paleographical.
The conference will be held at Cincinnati, Ohio 09-12 November 2017.
Possible foci include but are by no means limited to:
What are some new directions in the history of rhetoric? What avenues of rhetorical history remain unexplored or underexplored? What new methodologies or theories should historians of rhetoric make special use of? This panel solicits papers that address these and related questions, and particularly papers that address how new directions in the history of rhetoric speak to the relevance of rhetorical studies. This is a proposed ASHR session for NCA 2017, which will be held in Dallas on November 16-19, 2017. Please send a cv and a 250-word abstract to Brandon Katzir (brandon.katzir@gmail.com) by March 27.
MLA, January 2018, New York: Seeking proposals to a non-guaranteed session about kinship terminology or terms of endearment used for friends and foes. For example, in The Song of Roland, characters use sarcasm to describe enemies as friends, and interestingly, demeaning monikers are used to chastise friends. What do these epithets say about the cultural boundaries between friends and enemies in medieval and renaissance literature? Please send 500 word proposal and CV by 20 March 2017 to Pamela Kirkpatrick (kirkpatp@uark.edu ). Also, please email questions or comments. If proposal is accepted, attendant must be an MLA member by 7 April 2017, per MLA guidelines.